MetabulatR

Reading data for pubchem
Iterating over synonym list
writing to dynamo db

demonstration video

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Application/Webpage

to yet to be determined

Inspiration

The group understood the difficulties and significance of the prompt.

What it does

The application reduces human error and resources organizing metabolic data.

How I built it

The application utilizes r to pull scripts from the data APIs, AWS services are used to create the API and transfer the data, and r shiny was used to create the UI.

Challenges I ran into

The DBs did not always output the correct values according to user input. The queries would often choose the wrong compounds. Issues with starting up the environments and pathway errors.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

It works! It streams data to the user and provides real-time results. We were successful for unfamiliar tools.

What I learned

Most members of the group gained experiences in tools, languages, and environments they had not used before. We learned the limitations and challenges of data collection from databases with limited API functionality.